Star Walk: Night Sky Astronomy

Been using this for many years but on latest phone w latest iOS it won’t let me switch apps, had to restart phone to disengage. .#fail love you but what a PITA. Developer response was “All the apps are closed the same way, Star Walk as well." Except that all the other apps show a horizontal white bar at the bottom of the screen which when swiped up dismisses the app. For star walk on my phone, unlike all the other apps, no white bar. Not only that but it seems, deaf support. Caveat emptor.

Great graphics but you will get a add every 2 minutes

I just bought the subscription because of the ads popping up EVERY time I touched the screen. Now If I want to get info about an object, being a star or a satellite, somehow I have to close the app and reopen it if I want to go back to regular view because the back button doesn’t work. Seems like a bug. Can you please advise or fix it? Thank you!

I used to love this app but now you get ads CONSTANTLY to the point you seriously can’t even use it in passing. Was just outside for not even ten min and thought “oh I’d like to know what star that is.” In that time I took out the app and was created with an ad , ok that’s fine. Waited for it to finish, angled it up at the sky and started to zoom in, boom another ad and it was not short. Ok ok … close out of that ad now aim back at the sky again , boom ANOTHER AAD. Nope you lost me. Even if it were a pay to remove ads thing (which I would normally do) I won’t do for this because of how ridiculous it was. *update* developer feels I am exaggerating. I am not. I even gave it another try after writing the review and the same thing happened. I was also unaware that they have since moved to a subscription model as well. SMH very disappointed. It was a cool idea and app. Now it’s spammy adware or another subscription.

Ran app, pointed to Star, got bright disorienting pop up ad. Closed ad, pointed to Star, got another bright disorienting ad. This app was not usable to me.

I tried this app again after over 2 years and it was almost as good as when I last used it. The only problem - too many ads! I know that the app offered me to have a free trial of Star Walk+, which didn’t have any ads at all. I thought these ads were uncommon while using regular Star Walk, but I was dead wrong. Every single time I click off an object that I was reading about, an ads appears and it just ruins the space vibes. I tried a trick that works on other games and apps where I turn off the WiFi and cellular data which causes the ads to cease existing, but it just didn’t work on Star Walk. Can you please just make it that an add appears every 3-4 times I click off an object instead every single time? On the bright side, though, this app and it’s music brought be lots of great nostalgia, but this was challenged by all of the annoying ads. After all, there are more ads than stars in Star Walk.

I’ve had this app since my iPhone 3. Sometimes it takes a second or two to get going but once it is going it’s great. Still. Reading through a few of the most recent reviews are not the experience I’m having. My iPhone is running latest iOS and Starwalk is newest version

This used to be the app I would show people as the example of what could be done with an iPhone. Now, when I go to the search button 🔍 and enter a particular object I only get the answer “load more”. All I want to do is find the region of T Coronae Borealis to see what it looks like before it blows, otherwise it won’t stand out when it does go

It worked with my phone the first time, but it did not work the second. It acted like my phone was broken. Not impressed.

Absolutely fantastic app, had great memories of using this app with my mother when I was young. On its own it is incredible which keeps me from placing it at 0 stars. Upon trying it out again years later, it’s nearly unusable without paying for a subscription service. You get MAYBE 15-20 seconds between advertisements, each lasting longer than that. Turning this app into more of an advertisement watching app than a stargazing one. I despise subscription services, as they are inherently scummy. They prey on forgetfulness. I love this app but I just cannot see myself using an app that takes advantage of its users like this.